The
US defence draft was in fact seeking to convert the entire Maldivian
archipelago into an unquestioned US base: Free movement of US defence
personnel in the land, air and sea of the Maldives, use of the Maldivian
territory for US installations and technological deployment built by
its own contractors, no boarding and inspection on US aircraft and
vessels, border control of the facilities vested with the USA,
diplomatic status to the US military personnel and there by no action by
Maldives against any criminal activities of them, no claim by
Maldivians on any death or destruction to property, and above all not
taking any disputes to any national or international court, tribunal or
similar body or any third party.
The current US draft aims at a
worse infringement into the sovereignty of the nation of Maldivians than
what the protectorate treaty of British colonialism did in 1885,
Maldivian sources said.
A full perusal of the draft would show what the USA is aiming at in the region.
Meanwhile,
Maldivian media Minivan on Wednesday, related the defence draft
initiation to the challenges anticipated by the USA on its lease of
Diego Garcia of the Chagos archipelago from Britain, where the USA is
currently having a base of nuclear facilities.
The inhabitants of
Chagos were evacuated to Mauritius in 1965, and the UK paid money to
Mauritius to hand over Chagos to the USA in return for some defence
benefits, Minivan said. The Indian origin Mauritius Prime Minister was
later Knighted for his ‘services’.
‘Environmental’ protection
issues are now manipulated by the West to retain the base to the USA and
to deny rights of the original inhabitants.
But, Diego Garcia is
not the issue; it is capturing the Maldives and the island of Sri Lanka
in the given context of challenges from the East, political observers
said.
A section of Maldivians from the ruling faction had a meeting recently
in a US aircraft carrier that was passing through the Maldives.
Failure
of New Delhi’s foreign policy in the southern part of South Asia with
its exposed involvement in the genocide of Eezham Tamils and its
unsophisticated advances towards Maldives became gains for the USA,
political observers said.
Similar to ultimately architecting the
genocidal war and not resolving the national question of Eezham Tamils
for eternal benefits in the island of Sri Lanka, the democracy issue and
the fundamentalism issue were nurtured ultimately for the USA to demand
the defence treaty from the Maldives, political observers opined.
Meanwhile,
speaking to foreign media earlier this month, the ambassador of the
Washington administration in Colombo was explicit in telling the main
role played by her Establishment in eliminating the LTTE.
The
ambassador, taking pride on the effect of the US mobilisation that took
place just a few years before the genocide, said that the accountability
and reconciliation process would take several years to come. There was
nothing in her talk on righteous solutions aspired by the affected
nation of Eezham Tamils.
Pre-emptive support is now given to the
‘counting-the-trees’ struggle of Eezham Tamils against the permanent
Sinhala militarisation of the Valikaamam HSZ, just to silence the
agitators from turning against the ultimate culprits. But no one who is
aware of the military ambitions of the powers in the region would
believe in the support, without seeing concrete policy perspectives,
Tamil alternative political activists in the island commented.
Cautioning
against powers-simulated mobilisations pre-empting people’s uprisings
addressing the ultimate culprits, the activists said that the former
would only lead to serve the interests of the powers, bringing in only
deceit on the struggling the people. Eezham Tamils have a long
experience in such deceptions, enough for the edification of the entire
world, the activists said.
The strategy of targeting the struggle
at agents and subordinates, that too at the advice of the very masters,
without addressing the ultimate culprits face to face, is fundamentally
ineffective, as the ultimate culprits will be left free to manipulate
the situation with mirages as such as ‘regime changes’, the activists
said.
Our so-called lobbying should not detract people’s
uprisings addressed at the ultimate culprits. That is our only strength
today and it should go side by side with political negotiation. If the
lobbyists are in the service of our adversaries to do the work vice
versa, then they are not our lobbyists, the activists in the island
further said.
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